This essential core text introduces readers to metaphysics. In thoughtful and engaging prose, Peter van Inwagen examines three profound questions: What are the most general features of the world? Why is there a world? And, what is the place of human beings in the world? The third edition includes an entirely new chapter on ontology. The new chapter presents a theory of the nature of being and proceeds to apply this theory to two problems of ontology: the problem of non-existent objects and the problem of universals. Equally valuable as a textbook in a university course or an introduction to metaphysical thinking for the interested layperson, Metaphysics remains a fascinating book for a wide range of readers, from first-time students to the most sophisticated philosophers. Contents 1. Introduction Part One: The Way the World Is
2. Individuality
3. Externality
4. Temporality
5. Objectivity Part Two: Why the World Is
6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
7. Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument Part Three: The Inhabitants of the World
8. What Rational Beings Are There?
9. The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose
10. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism
11. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity
12. The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will
13. Concluding Meditation
14. Coda: Being
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凡例:1、索引所提到的知識點是筆者個人的關注之處,不具普適性,而且也沒準備讓所有人都接納,願讀者:樂則行之、憂則違之,如此而已。2、本篇索引為所涉及的重點知識分配瞭等級製,最高是七星級,最低是一星級。無星級的知識點則代錶基礎性知識。 (離弓矢君整理) 【第一版...
評分如作者所言,本書即可以作為沒有哲學基礎的一般讀者的入門書,也可以供哲學專業的同學學習和思考形而上學問題之用(這時候可能需要補充一些哲學史和哲學原著)。 貫穿全書的是一係列問題,而書的三部分就正是對應瞭三個形而上學核心問題: 1. 世界是怎樣的?世界的最一般特徵是...
評分凡例:1、索引所提到的知識點是筆者個人的關注之處,不具普適性,而且也沒準備讓所有人都接納,願讀者:樂則行之、憂則違之,如此而已。2、本篇索引為所涉及的重點知識分配瞭等級製,最高是七星級,最低是一星級。無星級的知識點則代錶基礎性知識。 (離弓矢君整理) 【第一版...
評分原版文字其實清晰易懂,由於譯本正文或注釋的錯誤、莫名其妙、文筆不佳等緣故中文版反而容易妨礙理解。 對於有意從事英美哲學研究的同好而言,在資金允許或網絡上能夠獲取到資源(例如本書最新第4版已有PDF電子版)的情況下,應當直接閱讀外文原版較好。畢竟如模態形而上學問...
評分如作者所言,本書即可以作為沒有哲學基礎的一般讀者的入門書,也可以供哲學專業的同學學習和思考形而上學問題之用(這時候可能需要補充一些哲學史和哲學原著)。 貫穿全書的是一係列問題,而書的三部分就正是對應瞭三個形而上學核心問題: 1. 世界是怎樣的?世界的最一般特徵是...
圖書標籤: 哲學 形而上學 分析哲學 Philosophy metaphysics 英文原版 教材 Metaphysics
這本書寫得很好笑啊,為什麼大傢這麼嚴肅。然而輕鬆幽默也是有代價的,有些論證並沒有說服力。
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評分這本書寫得很好笑啊,為什麼大傢這麼嚴肅。然而輕鬆幽默也是有代價的,有些論證並沒有說服力。
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評分P74-75:we call the aggregate of fixed moments pastward from the moment “the past” and the aggregate of fixed moments furtureward from the moment “the furture”。Thus the past is continuously growing and the furture contituously shriking。Many have found it natural to picture time as a river flowing furtureward,and to pic us the inhabitants of time
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